Get your foursome and sign up for the GSAR Annual Golf Outing

The GSAR Annual Golf Outing will be held on July 24 at the Lakeshore Yacht and Country Club with a shotgun start at noon. Ron France will provide the entertainment. Registration includes golf, cart, lunch and dinner. The cost is $135 per person through July 17. After that date, the cost will be $155 per person. For those who only want to attend the dinner, the cost will be $40 per person through July 17 and $55 after that. Dinner walk-ins will be charged $65.

Get your foursome together and register everyone at the same time here!

Thank you to our sponsors

• Major sponsors – Lang Law, AmeriCU 
• Dinner – M&T Bank
• Snack – Tompkins Community Bank
• Beverage cart – Paragon Home Loans
• Prize – Hunt Real Estate
• Cart – Howard Hanna Real Estate

Sponsorship opportunities are still available.

County Executive McMahon's next update will be Aug. 3

Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon's next update will be on Thursday, Aug. 3, starting at 10 a.m. via Zoom. Join the update using this link. The meeting ID is 825 4182 5003 and the passcode is 308517. You may also dial in using 646-931-3860. There will be no July update. Thank you to our August sponsor, Tompkins Community Bank.

School's in this summer with GSAR

GSAR has two great Zoom-based educational opportunities this summer. Instanet: The Fundamentals will be on July 26 from 9 a.m. to noon. The course is designed to help beginner users of Transaction Desk navigate through the system to create the required paperwork for a transaction. Participants will create professional documentation for both buyer and seller, thereby providing a clean, typed version of their forms for easier reading and understanding. You will learn how to print, e-mail and/or send the documents for an electronic signature using Authentisign.

Ethics for REALTORS® on Aug. 15 from 9 a.m. to noon will cover the REALTOR® Code of Ethics and your duties to clients, customers, the public, and your fellow REALTORS®. The professional standards process and Pathways to Professionalism will also be discussed. This class satisfies the NAR ethics training requirement and the DOS Ethical Business Practice Requirement.

Register for the classes here.

Independent contractor status underpins your business

Protecting independent contractor status, which has faced federal challenges in the past, continues to be a top priority for the National Association of REALTORS®. The independent contractor status of its members enables them to work uninhibited by burdensome regulations. However, litigation and federal and state legislative action are threatening many workers’ ability to be classified as independent contractors, including real estate professionals. Last October, the Department of Labor released a proposed rule reinterpreting how a worker is classified under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Although the proposed rule didn’t impact the classification of real estate professionals as independent contractors, the legal landscape makes the future uncertain. Read more.

Sign up for REAL TOR® Party Mobile Alerts

REALTOR® Party Mobile Alerts (RPMA), NAR's advocacy texting platform, offers REALTOR® Associations and REALTORS® a way to stay connected directly from their cell phone or tablet. When a national or state legislative call for action is launched, subscribers get a short text message, containing information to take action. Sign-up todav!

Changes are coming to TransactionDesk when an agent transfers to another brokerage

Beginning July 11, 2023, whenever an agent moves to a new brokerage, transactions will stay with the originating brokerage in TransactionDesk. There is nothing that the agent needs to do as this change will happen automatically. Departing agents will receive PDF copies of the transactions.

Click here to see how it will work within Transaction Desk.

Click here for the who, what, when, why and how.

Click here for the FAQs.

Clareity to release more customizable dashboard

Clareity will be releasing a more customizable Clariety Dashboard with a favorites panel this Thursday.  Learn how to set up your favorites panel the way you want to work.

MLS training opportunities

Supra Training: Supra's complete 2023 training schedule is available here.

Don't miss these upcoming classes

Instanet: The Fundamentals

3 hours CE • Zoom • July 26 from 9 - noon

This course is designed to help beginner users of Transaction Desk navigate through the system to create the required paperwork for a transaction. Participants will create professional documentation for both buyer and seller, thereby providing a clean, typed version of their forms for easier reading and understanding. You will learn how to print, e-mail and/or send the documents for an electronic signature using Authentisign. Register here.

Ethics for REALTORS®

3 hours CE • Zoom • Aug. 15 from 9 - noon

Are you living by the Code? The REALTOR® Code of Ethics is your pathway to professionalism. Adhering to the Code is what separates you, as a REALTOR®, from other real estate professionals. In this class, you will be reminded of your duties to clients and customers, the public, and your fellow REALTORS®. The professional standards process and Pathways to Professionalism will also be discussed. Satisfies NAR ethics training requirement.Satisfies DOS Ethical Business Practice Requirement. Register here.

Crash Course in Contracts: Avoid the Pitfalls

2 hours CE - In-person • Instructor: Robert Carter • Aug. 15 from 9 - 11 a.m.

In this crash course on purchase offer contracts, you'll learn about important items to review with your buyers and sellers, along with some hot topics such as seller concessions and current trends/changes in the Central New York area. Learn what impact contract details will have on the closing and beyond. In addition to the GSAR/CNYIS contract, your instructor will briefly review issues with contracts specific to new construction and reo/bank-owned properties. Register here.

RESPECT your colleagues and the industry

GSAR's REALTOR® Respect campaign is designed to remind members to respect the industry and each other. A key part of that is how REALTORS® interact publicly with each other and consumers. It is a good time to review NAR’s Code of Ethics and Pathways to Professionalism.



We are professionals and from NAR on down we have invested a great deal to reinforce this message with the general public. It’s important that all of us act professionally on public social media platforms seen by the public we serve. We are asking you to support this campaign and help us spread this message. Print the REALTOR Respect graphic and hang it in your office. 

• Golf at Lakeshore - July 24
• Micron Update - Aug 3
• Family Fun Day at the Zoo - Aug. 10
• Micron Update - Sept. 7
• REALTOR® Morning at the Parade of Homes - Sept. 15
• Parade of homes at River Grove at Radisson - Sept. 14-24
• NYSAR Fall Meetings - Oct. 1 -5
• Micron update - Oct. 5
• NAR NXT - Nov. 14-16

The Greater Syracuse Association of REALTORS^® welcomes its newest members, thanks them for joining, and wishes them great success.